Barely had the conclusion to Sword Art Online aired than fans were baying for the second season – though perhaps more thanks to the overall quality of the series than the quality of the finale, which seems to have been treated more as a prelude to the adaptation of the rest of the novels…

Some complaints have been voiced about there being a sappy real fight at the end instead of another thrilling high level zergfest as with the penultimate episode – perhaps amply illustrating the type of fan the show is so adept at attracting:

Never read the Light Novels, and I don’t need to. I know there is the Gun Gale Online Storyline, but as for the Anime, I think Sword Art Online/Alfheim Online storylines ended pretty well than most anime does nowadays.

Hopefully when they release sword art online that they do it in Blu-Ray/DVD Combo of 5 or 6 sets than 2 set collections or 1 complete collection. I rather it be in a Madoka Magica L.E. part 1 – 3 collections where it was affordable.

We have to enjoy it while we can. Soon we will have to pretend to hate it because it’s getting dubbed and every asshole with a cartoon network subscription will be wearing ironic t-shirts and cosplaying in black long coats.

why in the hell does this piece of shit show get so much praise and attention? It is a badly written mess full of lame fan service and god awful characters! I mean really? Have the standards of so many people fallen so low in the last few years???

For any who don’t quite get it, here’s the gist: Kirito, since he’s spent so much time in the game grinding combat levels, has taken that all on as something near muscle memory. So he basically has max unarmed combat in real life due to the game.

Creepy dude decides to try and lolstab him. You can see from the images how well that works out for him.

In the Novel, it’s basically he learned all those moves online so he knows it in his brain, and when he woke up, he practiced it over and over again in his doujo so he could “emulate” those moves in real life.

But it’s completely diferent
even if he knows the move , and is à expert in is mind , his body is one of à 17 years old geek
it shouldn’t be able to follow and exécute the move
knowing how to do something and doing it are two diferent thing

not really all just “hype”, those that faithfully followed the whole series despite what others said, are or have known about the novel series, and if the anime producers side deem that it made enough profits from the 1st dvd/bd sales, most likely season 2 will be in the works. as for the “quality” I think its been awhile since we’ve seen MMO style anime, and SAO’s story especially the first episode had many [including me] hooked. Hope everyone liked it, even though the finale was disappointing.

I think the whole story was disappointing. For an interesting premise of an MMO game story, we got pretty much a cliched fantasy anime story. They hardly took any depth with the MMO concept and without it, the story would have worked anyway: A damsel in distress. The first arc of the series at least had a little more MMO/game centric ideas, but the second arc was mostly just “save the princess” or family drama, neither of what I was looking into. The last episode here was actually the best from the second arc, just because they explained more what happened with the seed, the game world and it’s players (and not just Asuna and Kirito).

“His lips moved, whispering a name, but she couldn’t hear it.” So the novel says. I always thought it would be “Kayaba Akihiko…” but the lip sync in the anime is way off for that. Looks more like “Kirigaya Kazuto” or “Sword Art Online” but not quite. It’s a mystery to me.

Yeah, why should we be jealous of Kirito, he has good looks, have a very beautiful and devoted wife (superb cooking skills no less), and have at least four beautiful girl of all kind drooling all over him……………………….. HEY WAIT!!